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Early Bronze Age flint piercer
An unpatinated grey flint awl. The tool is made on a flake with a plain striking platform and has been retocued into a point. The retouch is marginal and just exists either side of the strengthened point that is on this piece.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
79.67H/1.39
Find Information
Site Name: Carn-y-Bwlch, Rhondda
Collection Method: Surface find
Notes: all objects under 79.67H found tightly packed together in a ploughed-up clod of peat
Acquisition
donation, 18/8/1979
Measurements
Length
(mm): 40.5
Width
(mm): 26.5
maximum thickness
(mm): 8.5
Weight
(g): 7.1
Material
Flint
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